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    services , made some intesesting remarks on the purposes and objects of such assemblies , advocating the uecessity of associations amongst Dissenters as long as they labour under any disabilities or privations on account of their religious

    profession . The afternoon was speut in discussing those topics which have lately become so interesting to Dissenters . Mr Brownbill was in the Chair . The Rev . W . Allard , of Bury , was elected Supporter for the next Meeting , which will take place at Cockey Moor in the autumn . B .

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    North Eastern Unitarian Association The Annual Meeting of this Association took place at Lutton in Lincolnshire , on the 11 th and 12 th of June . The Rev . George Harris , of Glasgow , was the preacher , and he delivered to the Society three very impressive and useful discourses , viz . one on Wednesday evening , another on Thursday morning , and another on Thursday evening . The Society and their friends dined

    together at Lutton on Thursday , Mr . Harris taking the Chair . In the course of the afternoon , several excellent sentiments were proposed , and the following gentlemen addressed the meeting : viz . Mr . Selby , of Lynn ; Mr . Wright , the Missionary ; Mr . Walker , of Wisbeach ; Mr . Scargill , of Bury ; Mr . Philp , of Lincoln ; and Mr . Lee > of Boston . The number of persons who dined together amounted to 118 , being a larger meeting than has ever assembled in that district .

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    Test Repeal Act . [ The Bill ( we beg pardon , the Act ) now stands as follows . We have been requested to print it entire for the infor mation of the country . ] An Act for repealing so much of several Acts as imposes the Necessity of receiving the Sacrament of the Lord ' s Supper as a Qualification for certain Offices and Employments ,

    Whereas an Act was passed in the Thirteenth year of the reign of King Charles the Second , intituled , "An Act for the well-governing and regulating of Corporations : " and whereas another

    4 ct was passed in the Twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Charles the Second , intituled , "An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants : " and whereas another Act was passed in the Sixteenth year of the reign of King George the . Second ^ intituled ,

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    " An Act to indemnify Persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments within the time limited by Law , and for allowing further time for that purpose ; and also for amending so much of an Act made in the Twenty-fifth year of the reign of

    King Charles the Second , intituled , * An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants , ' as relates to the time for receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper now limited bv the said Act . "

    And whereas it is expedient that so much of the said several Acts of Parliament as imposes the necessity of taking the Sacrament of the Lord ' s Supper according to the rights or usage of the Church of England , for the purposes therein respectively mentioned , should be repealed ; be it therefore enacted , by the King ' s most excellent Majesty , by and with the advice and consent of the

    Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Commons , in this present Parliament assembled , and by the authority of the same , that so much and such parts of the said several Acts passed in the Thirteenth and Twenty-fifth years of the reign of King Charles the Second , and of the said Act passed in the Sixteenth year of the reign of King George the Second , as require the person or persons in the said Acts respectively described , to take or receive the Sacrament of the Lord ' s

    Supper according to the rights or usage of the Church of England , for the several purposes therein expressed , or to deliver a certificate or make proof of the truth of such his or their receiving the said Sacrament in manner aforesaid , or as impose upon any such person or persons any penalty , forfeiture , incapacity or

    disability whatsoever for or by reason of any neglect or omission to take or receive the said Sacrament , within the respective periods and in the manner in the said Acts respectively provided in that behalf , shall , from and immediately after the passing of this Act , be , and the same are hereby , Repealed .

    And whereas the Protestant Episcopal Church of England and Ireland , and the doctrine , discipline and government thereof , and the Protestant Presbyterian Church of Scotland , aud the doctrine , discipline and government thereof , are

    by the laws of this realm severally established , permanently and inviolably : and whereas it is just and fitting , that on the repeal of such parts of the said Acts as impose the necessity of taking the Sa * crament of the Lord ' s Supper according to the rights or ijsage of the Church of

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    508 Intelligence . — Test Repeal Act .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1828, page 508, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2562/page/76/